E-Government, Digital Governance, Information Systems, Information Management, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics

Kelvin Joseph Bwalya is a full professor in Computer Information Systems and Executive Director of Research Development at Sohar University, Oman. He is a C1 rated NRF scholar (Established Researcher). He served as Vice Dean as well as vice chairperson of the UJ Senate Academic Freedom Committee. He is a Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (Hong Kong) and member of the Board of Directors for the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (Singapore). Prof Bwalya is a visiting professor in five different universities across the globe. He has supervised 11 PhDs to completion and significant Masters students. He is currently supervising 3 PhD students. Kelvin has a PhD in Information Management [Information Systems] (University of Johannesburg), Masters in Computer Science (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – KAIST) and Bachelors in Electrical Electronics Engineering (Moscow PE Technical University). He has worked as a Senior Windows Programmer at Samsung Electronics (Taej?n, South Korea) specializing in Digital Image Processing and MPEG 7/21 Digital Media Adaption. He has also worked at the University of Botswana as a senior scholar and at Zambia Research and Development Centre as Executive Director – Research and Development.  Prof Bwalya has delivered numerous keynote speeches at reputable international conferences. He has a Google scholar H-Index of 27 (3368 citations) and a Scopus H index of 15 with a field weighted citation index of 1.36 (36% more than world average). Prof Bwalya has a substantial international network.